Pham Van Toan
Vietnam Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Vietnam
Title: Genetically modified crops application in Vietnam
Biography
Biography: Pham Van Toan
Abstract
Vietnam is a tropical country and has a diverse ecosystems as well as diverse biodiversity, but also frequent natural disasters. At present Vietnam is predominantly an agricultural country. 55% labor force in agricultural sector and 75% population live in rural area. Vietnam government policy is to develop the biotechnology as priority in economy development strategy. Agricultural biotechnology is the major component in biotechnology development with the aaim to increase the productivity and quality of agro products, their competitiveness in the markets, the farmer’s income and to effective protection of environment. Application of GM crops is one of objectives of agricultural biotechnology program in Vietnam. Vietnam becam the member of Cartagena Protocol in 2004 and renewed the Environmental protection Law in 2006, the Biodiversity law in 2008 and the Food safety law in 2010 with additional regulations on the biosafety of LMO and GM products. To implementing the laws, Vietnam Goverment and it’s authority ministeria (Ministry of natural resources and environment - MONRE, Ministry of agriculture and rural development – MARD, Ministry of science and technology (MOST)) promulgated the goverment decrees and miniaterial or multiministerial regulations on the research, development of LMO, the risk assessments, the biosafety certification on environment, the certification of food, feed safety and the production, commercialization, import, export, transportation and storage of GMO and GMO products. Since 2015 Vietnam allows to grow the GM corn in the field. At present 5 events of GM corn are certified as environmental biosafety and 18 events of GM corn, GM soybean are certified as food, feed safety in Vietnam.